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Billy Davis, 76

Written by DeadGirl
Friday, 10 September 2004
'Buy the World a Coke' songwriter dies at 76 By Geoff Boucher LOS ANGELES TIMES Billy Davis, a songwriter who penned his share of hit songs but reached his greatest audience with the jingle-writing team that made advertising history with "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke," has died. He was 76. Davis, who died Sept. 2 in New Rochelle, N.Y., after an undisclosed illness, was one of the four ad men who wrote the anthem that debuted in a television commercial in 1971 but quickly surged beyond that forum. Not only did it become a pop hit (with lyrics recast to omit the soda brand) but its ubiquity and sing-along gentleness put it among the signature songs for the decade. The sensation of the song was a huge windfall for the Madison Avenue career of Davis, but the Detroit native had already earned a spot in pop-music history for his R&B songwriting, most notably his co-writer credit on "Lonely Teardrops," a defining hit for R&B great Jackie Wilson, as well as "Reet Petite," Wilson's first charting hit in 1956. In 1971, a seasoned Davis was listening when his ad agency's creative director, Bill Backer, described how he and other passengers stranded at a fog-bound Dublin airport passed the time sipping Coke and chatting. Davis and two other songwriters used that sentiment as the core of "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke." Among the lyrics: "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company." The commercial showed attractive teens and young adults from across the globe who were gathered together on an Italian hilltop to form a rainbow-faced chorus. Davis later told interviewers that he knew something special was happening when his friends in radio called to say listeners were calling to request the commercial be played as if it was a hit single. It became just that when Davis drafted a group of singers, quickly dubbed the Hillside Singers, and produced a single with the same melody and meadow-mellow harmonies but with the title "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)." http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/9624462.htm

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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